Pith Number

pith:XNIPHMC5

pith:2017:XNIPHMC537ZQ4OBGWDYBTQTPXD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Auxiliary Variables in TLA+

Leslie Lamport, Stephan Merz (VERIDIS)

arxiv:1703.05121 v2 · 2017-03-15 · cs.LO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XNIPHMC537ZQ4OBGWDYBTQTPXD}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:43:35.108220Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bb50f3b05ddff30e3826b0f019c26fb8f020c8de167ae39b5299c073fbb63281

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.05121 · arxiv_version: 1703.05121v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.05121 · pith_short_12: XNIPHMC537ZQ · pith_short_16: XNIPHMC537ZQ4OBG · pith_short_8: XNIPHMC5

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XNIPHMC537ZQ4OBGWDYBTQTPXD \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: bb50f3b05ddff30e3826b0f019c26fb8f020c8de167ae39b5299c073fbb63281

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "39e9fc1ee00cd4beee7d9cbf6c53dbe4d7a757ffa8526a12993ec188709073df",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-15T12:29:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "436f636a68aac74b30683e156cf30e8b353cf22a9d3bcd1eb35af0ed7bf969e9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.05121",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}